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...outstanding, divided its new shares between General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. In so doing Radio Corp. gave the two electric companies a majority of its stock, and in return received from them patent rights and manufacturing facilities essential to the production of radio sets. Although David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp., called upon President Hoover, presumably in connection with the transaction. and although Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Washington demanded an inquiry by the Department of Justice, the connection between General Electric, Westinghouse and Radio Corp. has long been obvious. The significance of the deal...
...history of Radio Corp. of America, including the Titanic disaster whence President David Sarnoff, then a wireless operator, first came to fame...
Elected. David Sarnoff, 38, vice president, onetime Russian immigrant messenger boy; to be president of Radio Corp. of America, succeeding Maj.-General James Guthrie Harbord, who succeeds Owen D. Young as board chairman, Mr. Young to head a new Executive Committee...
...chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted as law, Mr. Sarnoff replied: "From our standpoint, Her Majesty is merely a paid entertainer...
With Emerson's* famed precept about the world's beating a path to the door, however remote, of the best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and his energetic competitor is out on the main road, a third man will come along with a virulent poison which is death on mice and there will be no longer any demand for mouse-traps." Pointing to the manner in which phonograph makers adapted their products to the radio...